This catalogue was released for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago's Donald Sultan exhibit (Sep 12, 1987 – Nov 8, 1987). It provided a comprehensive view of the artist's paintings and drawings. Sultan's work draws from Manet, the Old Masters, and graffiti, blurring the line between fine art and more populist forms. By depicting smokestacks as floral stems and translating newspaper stories into semi-abstract compositions, he touches on serious topics with subtle nuance. His still-lifes of lemons and tulips are both mundane and loaded with meaning, while his pieces such as Black Lemons and Black Tulips - charcoal-on-paper drawings - become more conceptual.